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Commemorative issue the principality of asturias, an autonomous community within the kingdom of spain obverse asturian victoria cross features: country spain type circulating commemorative coin year value 5 pesetas (5 esp) metal aluminium-bronze weight 3 g diameter 175 mm thickness 1
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The author of the two manuscript treatises is pedro de lucuce y ponce, also written as lucuze (avilés, -barcelona, ); asturian scientist, military and mathematicianon the back of the last page, the inscription "it is in accordance with the compendium of architecture, which is taught in the third class of the royal academy of barcelona"two volumes in 4to (20in lucuze wrote a regulation for the academies, establishing studies of three years, in four nine-month courses: the first two dedicated to military training in general and the last two specialized for the instruction of artillery and engineering officersmagnificent full leather binding, guards in marbled paper, red-tinted cuts and spine with a five-rib compositionon the back of the last page the inscription "is in accordance with the compendium of static, which is taught in the 3rd class of this royal academyhe died in barcelona 7 years after having written these two treatiseshe studied latinity at the villa de avilés and humanities at the university of oviedodon pedro de lucuze""tratado 8º de la arquitectura civil": 5 blank sheets, 86 pwith handwritten text, 14 blank sheets, 11 folded plates with prints"tratado 7º de la estática": 162 psame exquisite calligraphy in both volumes; clean, elegant and perfectly legiblebarcelona, octoberplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablein , from his position as director general of artillery and engineers, he was appointed director of the royal society of mathematics (predecessor of the royal academy of exact, physical and natural sciences), founded by the count of aranda, a position he held until , when the academy disappeared after the resignation of the count of arandahis first destination was on the shores of granadain he was appointed assistant professor to the director of the royal military academy of barcelona until , when he was appointed head director by the minister of war josé patiñohe was born in avilés, the son of the doctor tomás de lucuze, where he spent his childhood and youthin he was appointed field marshal and, in early , shortly before his death, he was promoted to lieutenant generalhe was director until the year of his deathhe belonged to several regiments, studying mathematics and the art of war on his own, and it turned out that he was admitted to the royal corps of engineers, with the rank of lieutenant and extraordinary engineer on januaryour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storein he abandoned the career of theology just started, preferring the military careerwith handwritten text, 8 blank sheets, 6 folded plates with printsin the two years of operation, lucuze managed to collect a total of volumes of scientific works, many of which went to the barcelona academythe plates are chalcographic engravings with architectural and geometric figures, very common in the scientific books of the time (attached to the manuscript according to the author's criteria)within the military ranking of the royal corps of engineers, in he was promoted to chief engineer and in to director engineer
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